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περιπόλιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιπόλιος περιπόλιον

Structure: περιπολι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. lying round

Examples

  • ὡσ δὲ ἤγγισεν Ἀζώτου, ἔδειξαν αὐτῷ τὸ ἱερὸν Δαγὼν ἐμπεπυρισμένον καὶ Ἄζωτον καὶ τὰ περιπόλια αὐτῆσ καθῃρημένα καὶ τὰ σώματα ἐρριμμένα καὶ τοὺσ ἐμπεπυρισμένουσ, οὓσ ἐνεπύρισεν ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ. ἐποίησαν γὰρ θημωνίασ αὐτῶν ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 11:4)
  • καὶ ἀπῆλθεν ἐκεῖθεν εἰσ Γάζαν, καὶ ἀπέκλεισαν οἱ ἀπὸ Γάζησ, καὶ περιεκάθισε περὶ αὐτὴν καὶ ἐνεπύρισε τὰ περιπόλια αὐτῆσ πυρὶ καὶ ἐσκύλευσεν αὐτά. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 11:61)
  • καὶ περιπόλια συχνὰ ἐν ταύτῃ. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 2 20:4)
  • τῆσ δὲ Κυρήνησ ἐστὶ περιπόλια ἥ τε Ἀπολλωνία καὶ ἡ Βάρκη καὶ ἡ Ταύχειρα καὶ Βερενίκη καὶ τὰ ἄλλα πολίχνια τὰ πλησίον. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 41:11)

Synonyms

  1. lying round

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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